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to protect the rights of individual inventors—those glassworkers and the generations of ingenious people who toiled in their garages, th century intellectual property law increasingly became attics, and simple labs—in the 19 a special interest of corporations. A particular stimulus for the corporate takeover of intellectual property law was the late nineteenth century public reaction against the power of giant corporations such as Standard Oil and AT&T. Before the creation of the Sherman Antitrust Law of 1890, a U.S. law that forbade major corporations from colluding in suppressing competition, U.S. firms regularly violated the rights of individual inventors and used their discoveries without payment. But the antitrust law—antitrust means anything opposed to monopolistic business practices, “trust” being another word for a cartel or a small group th of companies that knowingly cooperate in manipulating markets—scared late 19 century capitalists into employing another strategy. Forbidden from cooperating as individual entities to benefit themselves and each other, large corporations began a massive wave of mergers in the late nineteenth century. The result was that big companies became much larger, and they began to pool their historically small research and development efforts in the form of large corporate labs. With this greater attention to research and development among these newly merged firms, the legal need to protect th无忧论文 【http://www.uklunwen.com】is research became clear. In 1885, only 12% of patents were taken out by corporations (the majority being individual inventors); by 1950 approximately 75% of patents were held by corporations. The ability of corporations to hold patents was significantly eased by the controversial amendment to the U.S. constitution that conferred on corporations the same legal status as individuals, thus allowing corporations to evade previous rulings that restrained them from controlling intellectual property. Moreover, since corporations have far greater power than individuals, companies assumed the status of super-individuals, with rights equal to ordinary human citizens and yet resources and influence far in excess of even the wealthiest or most famous of people. The key section in the fourteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Is below. Subsequent interpretation of this amendment defined corporations, as well as people, as legal persons. “Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” c. trademarks and branding T |
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